Feeling healthy enough to completely fail on a skateboard again. Tried to get front 50 bigspin for #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge but came up short. #skateboardingishard @ed.templeton inspired

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 4, 2016 at 5:54pm PST

And while I was not landing anything @fullertrron landed a lot.

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 4, 2016 at 6:47pm PST

Another day off work. Dave came over around 1 and we rolled to the little Westminster park. There were a couple other skaters when we got there, but they left after awhile. Warming up was almost impossible for me. Even though I haven’t missed a day of skating I haven’t been in my normal routine. Aka, lots of skating, lots of flip tricks, etc. I really didn’t do much more then get warmed up enough to try front 50 bigspins and then try them for two hours. Ugh. Even broke my board. Dave did a lot though. Good frontside ollies over the quarterpipe hip, all the grinds above, nose manual, much, much more. He was ripping. I had put some old Bones STFs on as I was starting to think the softer 99a Spitfires didn’t have as much pop. I was right. So much for skating softer wheels.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm bones stf V1 wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Went to Safeway ledge mid day after a nap on a day I had to use as vacation. I was so rusty. I didn’t do much more then front and back 50s and kickflips. Maybe a bad front tail or two, halfcab noseslide, nollie flip attempts, front 50 shove. Grinding concrete felt good.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Escaped my sickness for a few minutes to watch @fullertrron feeble his favorite spot. 💨⛵️

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Mar 2, 2016 at 5:03pm PST

Met up with Dave after a day of laying around I attempted to meet Dave for a few minutes at Boulder Ditch. It was super windy which did not help me feel any better. I struggled as I didn’t have much motivation, coordination or the ability to breath. I did a boardslide on the pvc, did a front 5-0 off the end of the PVC, posed some feebles, struggled and ended by doing a kickflip on flat. Dave had some moves though. Long feeble transfers, front 50 transfers, steezy pivots on the taller qp and a bunch more I’m sure. I probably shouldn’t have skated like that though as I felt like crap when I got home.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Feeling more sick then yesterday went out to the garage for a total minimum of a couple 180 slides and then 4 tries to get a crappy kickflip.

Feeling sick I went out to the garage for a minimum session. Did a couple nollie shoves, 180 slides and then a first try kickflip to call it a day.

After driving down from Buena Vista and a nap I headed out to hopefully enjoy the warm weather a little. I was supposed to do a “Twirlybird” for the game and I remembered this old short manual pad that I skated like 10 years ago (really) that was perfect for 180 nose manuals. So I figured it would be good for the extra 180 too. This spot ended up being pretty awesome. I mostly just tried the twirlybird until I got it. Going back I would try front tails on the curb and they felt somewhat good for once. It took me a solid 20 minutes to get the twirlybird and it felt pretty neat to land it. Then I skated more of the spot. Ollied the tiny median, did some grinds on it, did a kickflip and a bad treflip, ollied the little curb off the sidewalk. Then I ended by doing a wallie/nollie off the one stair. I didn’t do it very good, but it felt pretty cool anyway.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

After snowboarding at Monarch I grabbed my board and did a quick ollie and took 4 tries to get a kickflip.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Went to Lafayette on a day off of work feeling tired from the late night Longmont session the night before, but not too sore somehow. That park is fun to cruise around in when you’re the only one there. I kind of did the same ol’ thing. Hit the little ledge up top, cruise around the middle section or end up in the snake run or toilet bowl. I didn’t have much energy though and for the most part was just kind of passing the motions. Almost got front 5-0 shove on the little ledge. Did my first every back disaster to fakie on the tiny tiny qp. Also got a crooks on the smaller bump to ledge for the first time ever. It was fun. I was breaking in some new black/gum PJs, they are a little tight, hopefully they stretch out a little.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 black/gum)

Went to Longmont park on a cool night and met up with Dave and Aki. The park wasn’t crowded, but the few people that were there made it pretty chaotic. Having a new complete was definitely messing with me. My new wheels and bearings were so smooth and fast I was thrown off. I mostly started doing the same thing I normally do, cali grind off the top ledge, boardslide the ledge, back tail the hip. But I was totally freaked out by the speed for the boardslide. I’m writing this too long after the session to remember much about the session. Aki was skating the tall flatbar and hip. Dave was doing front tails on the bank and lining out shoves over the hip. Aki and I tried 360 flips on flat for awhile, I tried to line them out with a b/s flip over the hip, but never got close. We all ollied the new 4 stair. Aki and Dave first try, me second try (I did land on it first try and almost roll away). That was probably my favorite thing that happened. We skated the hump in the back for awhile. Dave did back tails and disasters on it. Aki and Dave nose manualed the long pad. I took a long time to front d the hump and I felt horrible on my skateboard. Ugh. Aki skated the ledge for awhile, Dave and I skated the mellow bank. I did a few of my basics and managed an over 40 360 flip to fakie. Dave had a nice fakie front shove, fakie flip and I think fakie varial flip. We ended doing flyouts over the cone. It was easy for Aki and Dave, I struggled to barely get one. Aki also back 180’d it and Dave front 180’d it.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 patriot)

@boredzinejp challenged me to get all 90s and do a switch noseslide shove. I guess getting into the theme of it helped me out. Next trick Josh is Slappy front feeble. #theglenandjosholdfartlongdistanceinstagramtricksuperchallenge #ihadwaytoomuchfuninthosepants #90sforever

A video posted by glen gillinghammer (@corpoglenny) on Feb 24, 2016 at 9:12pm PST

This was all I did. These two tricks. I was super exhausted and sore and was going to opt out for one kickflip in the garage. But instead I remembered I had some huge jeans and decided to answer Josh’s 90s challenge. I did the noseslide on a little 8″ board with 42mm wheels. It ruled. Kickflip on that felt so easy. Then I did the front feeb slappy which took longer, but was quite fun.

(setup: 8.25 null awkward deck, venture v-hollows 5.2 hi with 3 washers inside, venom 91a bushings, 50mm spitfire 99a wheels, nbnumeric pj stratford 533 patriot)